Secrets Of The Pastor’s Wife by Christina Ryan Claypool

Brokenness

Secrets Of The Pastor’s Wife by Christina Ryan Claypool is a
powerful and thought provoking Christian novel that will aim straight at your heart and emotions.

The novel has the themes of
secrets, betrayal and hurts. If we keep secrets eventually they will weigh us
down. “Haunted by old secrets.”
God does not want us to live under a burden. He will send people across our
paths to help us to release our deepest sorrows.

There is also the theme of forgiveness. “The
same forgiveness you extend to others, you must extend to yourself.” Often the
hardest person to forgive is the face in the mirror.

In our pain we may turn away from God, believing
ourselves to be abandoned by Him. “So many times we don’t know why, but that
doesn’t mean that God doesn’t care.” If we focus on our pain, we are not
looking to God and we cannot see Him through our pain.

We all have a God-shaped hole that nothing else
will fill. Nothing else fits. “Endeavouring to fill the empty hole… with some
addictive behaviour.” Everything but God is meaningless and we will be on a
path to self-destruct.

The wife of a pastor is often invisible.
Parishioners look to their own interests and past the pastor’s wife to him. God
knows the need for a good friend and will send one across her path.

I found Secrets
Of The Pastor’s Wife an incredibly powerful and emotional read. It is heart
breaking to witness the isolation, the hurt and the pain but God is the God of restoration
and He can and will restore lives.

I received this book for free. A favourable review was not required and all views expressed are my own.